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Aesop's Famous Fables and Twisted Tales by Peter Nuttall
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RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 14. No chorus. Whilst some of the characters are nominally gendered, it's only a mater of pronouns! Contains anthropomorphism.
Run TimeAround 36 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe producer's copy of the script comes with the score for the concluding song.
StyleOne-act play, ending in a song. Could be performed by children or by adults to an audience of children.
SynopsisFour stories for Aesop's extensive collection, about a Tortoise and Hare, a lion and a mouse, the belly and its team, and the battle between the Sun and the North Wind.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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All Is Not Lost by Nicholas Richards
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 29. No chorus. Most of the characters are written male, but really it doesn't matter. Characters are a mix of ages, so could suit a mixed age company.
Run TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with sheet music for five original songs.
StyleFull-length comedy with musical elements, speculating on the culture clash between Anglo Saxons and Romanised Britons.
SynopsisSir Ambrosius Pengarth used to be the valiant, beast-slaying ruler of the Five Hills, but now is more interested in playing his lyre than protecting the people. When rumours of a dragon spread through the castle, his young son and nephew bunk off lessons to go and slay it themselves.
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ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Christmas At Petersburg by George Douglas Lee
RolesMinimum Male roles = 6. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 11. Minimum total without doubling = 11. No chorus. One of the characters has the same surname as the author. This is not entirely coincidental.
Run TimeAround 72 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with two original scores. Additional excerpts from Christmas carols could be used at the discretion of the production.
StyleHistorical drama, exporing some of the depths of the American Civil War.
SynopsisThe Confederates have been besieged at the railhead of Petersberg for months, reducing food, clothing and ammunition to the barest minimum. Into this desperate situation, on Christmas Eve, come two young girls from opposite sides of the war, each looking for a lost and injured father.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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Dearly Beloved by Sarah Archer
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 3. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 81 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicTwo song suggestions as well as a musical score for one original song, available with the producer's copy of the script.
StyleA comedy drama with music, for four actors.
SynopsisA single mother, a businessman and a teenage girl find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. Eventually, the truth of their situation dawns, and the unlikely trio realise they’ll have to work together to find the answers that will set them free.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Harmony by Neil Armstrong
RolesMinimum Male roles = 7. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 21. Minimum total without doubling = 21. No chorus. Four of the roles are non-speaking.
Run TimeAround 50 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicPiano/vocal score for the song 'Harmony' is included with the Producer's copy of the script.
StyleOne act play (with a song) for a youth theatre group. (Originally commissioned for the youth of the South Shields Customs House Theatre.)
SynopsisEstablished as a haven or harmonious living, the village of Harmony is waiting for the prophesied visitors that will declare the village the happiest in the world and bring about world peace. But Lizzy and Bez have dropped in on the vital day, and they will change everything.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A 'backing track CD' with arrangements of songs from the show
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Henry and the Rocket by Eseld Swift
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 7. Minimum total without doubling = 8. Chorus. The characters are male (apart from the storyteller and the cat, whose gender is unspecified), but that does not matter for casting purposes. Optional chorus of shipwrecked sailors.
Run TimeAround 21 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with lead sheets (vocal line music) for the two songs which are intended to be sung unaccompanied.
StyleA one act historical drama for schools, with various (easily suggested) settings.
SynopsisBased on the life and work of Henry Trengrouse and his invention of a Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus the consequences of lives lost at sea are brought vividly to life.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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In the Lap of the Gods by Philip Bird (music Isabelle Michalakis)
RolesMinimum Male roles = 0. Minimum Female roles = 0. Minimum total with doubling = 23. Minimum total without doubling = 30. No chorus. The characters are a class of schoolchildren, divided into four groups. Each group acts out Greek myths. Whilst some of the characters in the myths have a specific gender, this need not be the gender of the actor.
Run TimeAround 45 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe Producer's Copy of the script comes with scores for three original songs. Further dances can be added at the discretion of the production.
StyleOne-act musical play for a full class of children, providing roles for all and an introduction to several Greek myths.
SynopsisA group of children are shipwrecked on an island, and all they can find is a strange chest with a very odd collection of contents. The items inside help the children tell some old stories and keep up their spirits through the night until they are rescued the next day.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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An Irregular Satellite by Meg Schenk
RolesMinimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. Female character also sings.
Run TimeAround 35 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicSheet music for one of the two songs is provided with the Producer's copy of this script. (The other is a suggestion of a popular song.)
StyleA one act love story, with two songs, and a single simple set.
SynopsisIn an imaginative setting, good friends Fran and Scott gradually discover their love for each other. Written in American English.
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** Backing tracks of songs from the show as MP3 files
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Maid in China by Philippa Smith
RolesMinimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 6. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 27. Chorus. Characters include the Emperor's pet dragon and the occasional panda. The chorus is optional.
Run TimeAround 90 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicSheet music for the proglogue song is provided with the Producer's Copy of the script. Other songs may be added at the discretion of the production team.
StyleFull-length comedy play for children (or a mixed company of adults and kids) based on the Willow Pattern story.
SynopsisHenry Hopper is not the least bit interested in China plates and their history. But when a cursed plate in a museum transports him to ancient China, he soon finds himself caught up in the mystery of two missing bluebirds, a pair of secret lovers, and the role they play in the Willow Pattern...
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
Click here to read the script or Click here for more details.

Market Forces by Bill Tordoff
RolesMinimum Male roles = 9. Minimum Female roles = 12. Minimum total with doubling = 25. Minimum total without doubling = 25. No chorus.
Run TimeAround 40 minutes. [Estimated!]
MusicThe script includes lyrics to two songs (and one reprise) set to popular melodies. The producer's copy of the script comes with sheet music for the two songs.
StyleOne-act play (with music) for kids. Good against evil. That sort of thing.
SynopsisWith no Lord of the Manor to repair the Market Hall, it's under threat of redevelopment by the wicked Swilco Supermarket, who's got the townspeople bedazzled through the use of O-Bey-Me gas. Can Marshy and Daisy save the day?
PriceFor scripts and live performance rights, please click on the Price Link to find the cost.  For scripts and lockdown videos/streaming rights, click here
ExtrasThe following additional items are available (at extra cost) to go with this script:
** A set of MP3 files with piano arrangements of songs from the show
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